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Help save our Parks!

Posted on August 30th, 2008 by shadowchaser

Gov. Blago has determined it necessary to close some very good state parks recently. Moraine View State Recreation Area (near Le Roy) and Weldon Springs (near Clinton) are two that are scheduled to shut down Nov. 1st. This would mean that many would not have a nice, peaceful park to walk, hike, run, exercise, fish, hunt, camp, ride horses and enjoy other outdoor activites in. Many believe that this is just a ploy by the Governor to force the state Congress to pass his pet projects in some sort of deal. Please let your Congress and Governor know that we, the people of Illinois, do not wish for these parks to be closed to the public and they need to find a different method of providing funding for other pojects. There is no reason for taking away our places of enjoyment and recreation in order to fund something else. We fought too long to ensure a little slice of nature for our sons and daughters to enjoy to have someone take it away from us in this manner. Please find someplace where a petition is being circulated and sign it, if you can’t find one then start one up. Casey’s in Le Roy has one in case you are in the area.

Thanks for letting me stand on my soapbox here.

More about this later as Moraine View is very near and dear to my and my family’s heart.

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Jack Corzine has wrote 141 articles on this blog.

I'm a 49 year old Union Ironworker who has numerous interests. Currently I am close to receiving my AAS in Network Administration in Security and am seeking a career change over to the IT field. I love to cook, love my wife and family, and love to live life as fully as I am able to and I try to reflect that in my writings here. Hopefully you will be able to take something from what I place here and put it to good use. Please feel free to comment on anything you wish to here, tell your friends about this website and come back for me. May the Lord God bless and keep you.

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One Response to “Help save our Parks!”

  1. Pam Lewis // Aug 31, 2008 at 9:44 am

    I feel exactly the same way about Weldon Springs. We have our family reunions there at least twice a year and have been frequenting the park for as long as I can remember…over 50 years! Did you happen to notice that NONE of the closings are in the Chicago area? I have been searching for online petitions for these areas and Kickapoo since the news broke, but so far have not found any. If you hear of any, please post them because I have family in just about every state of the union who come to these places at least once a year who would be happy to sign a petition to keep them open. Thanks for opening this line of communication!

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